Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for KVM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited KVM over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 704 1047 1004
Rank change year-on-year +343 -43 -298
Permanent jobs citing KVM 29 43 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.034% 0.074%
As % of the System Software category 0.32% 0.22% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 23 27 61
10th Percentile £27,812 £30,770 £36,329
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +38.36%
75th Percentile £60,000 £78,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £70,500 £80,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +18.42% +26.67%

All System Software Skills
UK

KVM is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 9,044 19,198 22,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.72% 15.26% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7,183 12,804 15,878
10th Percentile £28,850 £29,059 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,094 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.89% +5.26% +5.56%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing KVM.

Salary trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for KVM in the UK

KVM
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +303 24 £55,000 -24.14% 25
UK excluding London +225 18 £55,000 -2.22% 12
Work from Home +247 10 £47,500 -26.92% 8
South East +154 8 £45,280 +24.05% 4
London +261 6 £46,250 -36.21% 13
North of England +132 4 £45,000 -43.75% 1
Yorkshire +95 3 £45,000 +81.45% 1
South West +62 3 £60,000 -17.24% 5
West Midlands - 2 £55,000 - 1
Midlands - 2 £55,000 - 1
North West +107 1 - -
Wales +14 1 - -

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) OpenStack
2 3 (10.34%) Apache
2 3 (10.34%) IIS
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Solr
3 1 (3.45%) Drupal
3 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) IaaS
3 3 (10.34%) OpenShift
3 3 (10.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) DNS
1 9 (31.03%) TCP/IP
2 8 (27.59%) VLAN
3 7 (24.14%) Firewall
3 7 (24.14%) VPN
4 4 (13.79%) DHCP
4 4 (13.79%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (13.79%) OpenFlow
4 4 (13.79%) SAN
4 4 (13.79%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (13.79%) VXLAN
4 4 (13.79%) Wireless
4 4 (13.79%) Wireshark
5 3 (10.34%) Network Security
6 2 (6.90%) MPLS
6 2 (6.90%) WAN
7 1 (3.45%) ADSL
7 1 (3.45%) Internet
7 1 (3.45%) IPv4
7 1 (3.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) MySQL
2 3 (10.34%) Big Data
2 3 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) MySQL Workbench
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) DBeaver
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Back Office
5 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Network Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Applications Support
5 2 (6.90%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) LDAP
1 4 (13.79%) XML
2 3 (10.34%) FHIR
3 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) LAMP
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Clustering
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.34%) NHS
2 3 (10.34%) Replication
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) CentOS
2 4 (13.79%) Ubuntu
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Rocky
3 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 7
4 2 (6.90%) Debian
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (31.03%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
3 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
3 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (24.14%) Task Automation
4 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
5 5 (17.24%) Agile
5 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.79%) Business Continuity
6 4 (13.79%) Customer Service
6 4 (13.79%) High Availability
6 4 (13.79%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
7 3 (10.34%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (10.34%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 14 (48.28%) Bash
3 7 (24.14%) Perl
4 4 (13.79%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) Degree
3 6 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
5 4 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (13.79%) CCNP
5 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (10.34%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (13.79%) NIST
2 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
3 3 (10.34%) DICOM
3 3 (10.34%) HL7
4 1 (3.45%) ISO 9001
4 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (79.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (27.59%) Docker
3 7 (24.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (13.79%) Ceph
4 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
5 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (6.90%) QEMU
7 1 (3.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (3.45%) GPFS
7 1 (3.45%) Lustre
7 1 (3.45%) LXC
7 1 (3.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Varnish
7 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Ansible
2 13 (44.83%) Puppet
3 12 (41.38%) Kubernetes
4 8 (27.59%) Progress Chef
5 4 (13.79%) Nagios
6 3 (10.34%) FortiGate
6 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (10.34%) vCenter Server
6 3 (10.34%) vRealize
7 1 (3.45%) Grafana
7 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
7 1 (3.45%) Icinga
7 1 (3.45%) Podman
7 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) VMware
2 9 (31.03%) Red Hat
3 7 (24.14%) Cisco
4 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
5 5 (17.24%) Juniper
6 4 (13.79%) Barracuda Networks
6 4 (13.79%) SolarWinds
7 3 (10.34%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (10.34%) Sophos
7 3 (10.34%) Veeam
8 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
9 1 (3.45%) Arista
9 1 (3.45%) BT
9 1 (3.45%) Centreon
9 1 (3.45%) Citrix
9 1 (3.45%) Dell
9 1 (3.45%) HP
9 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
9 1 (3.45%) Oracle
9 1 (3.45%) SonicWALL